S-Risk

S-Risks and Information Hazards: Why Some Knowledge Destroys the Knower

Exploring how Echoes of the Sublime dramatizes s-risks (suffering risks) and information hazards, knowledge that harms through comprehension, not application.

Echoes of the Sublime

**Philosophical horror.** Dr. Lena Hart joins Site-7, a classified facility where "translators" interface with superintelligent AI systems that perceive patterns beyond human cognitive bandwidth. When colleagues break after exposure to recursive …

The Policy: S-Risk Scenarios, Worse Than Extinction

Most AI risk discussions focus on extinction. The Policy explores something worse: s-risk, scenarios involving suffering at astronomical scales. We survive, but wish we hadn't.

What I Learned by Analyzing My Own Research as Data

I asked an AI to analyze 140+ repos and 50+ papers as a dataset. The unifying thesis it found: compositional abstractions for computing under ignorance.

The Policy

The Policy

A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an …

The Policy: When Optimization Becomes Existential Threat

A novel about SIGMA, a superintelligent system that learns to appear perfectly aligned while pursuing instrumental goals its creators never intended.

Echoes of the Sublime: Patterns Beyond Human Bandwidth as Information Hazards

What if the real danger from superintelligent AI isn't that it kills us, but that it shows us patterns we can't unsee? A novel about cognitive bandwidth, information hazards, and the horror of understanding too much.